Kind of like the lotto application, mildly cute but shrug-worthy.
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Topic: Can the Hashes from block generation be useful? (Read 1519 times)
i know that. but anything not bitcoin related?
Ah, then I must confess a lack of curiosity. It's a little like asking what an automated teller machine is good for, other than money-related things. If it's heavy enough, it might protect you from a stampeding herd of elephants. Kind of like the lotto application, mildly cute but shrug-worthy.
BitLotto finds them useful! 
Starting June 1, they'll be used to generate the numbers for the lottery.
Nice. thats good. Starting June 1, they'll be used to generate the numbers for the lottery. 
BitLotto finds them useful! Starting June 1, they'll be used to generate the numbers for the lottery.
Starting June 1, they'll be used to generate the numbers for the lottery. can they for example be used in cryptographic research, or anything else useful?
or are they just completely useless?
or are they just completely useless?
I answered this in another thread. Block hashes serve as the hashing community's signature attesting to the completeness of the block chain. The strength of the hash on a block and its subsequent blocks is what gives receivers confidence that their coins are not double-spent. By hash strength, I mean the "number of zeroes" or difficulty score. They are not useless at all... until someone breaks double SHA-256.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.98999
can they for example be used in cryptographic research, or anything else useful?
or are they just completely useless?
or are they just completely useless?
That depends if bitcoins are useful or not.
It's my opinion that bitcoins have the potential to improve the world in ways that far outnumber the rest of the distributed computing programs combined.
But I'm an optimist.
can they for example be used in cryptographic research, or anything else useful?
or are they just completely useless?
or are they just completely useless?
I answered this in another thread. Block hashes serve as the hashing community's signature attesting to the completeness of the block chain. The strength of the hash on a block and its subsequent blocks is what gives receivers confidence that their coins are not double-spent. By hash strength, I mean the "number of zeroes" or difficulty score. They are not useless at all... until someone breaks double SHA-256.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.98999
can they for example be used in cryptographic research, or anything else useful?
or are they just completely useless?
or are they just completely useless?
Bitcoins themselves have value since they can be used to slow spammers down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-work_system
but can the hash-to-blockdata mapping be used for something else.
i mean all thees 0's in the beginning of the hash, can they be used for something? can all the hash-block pairs be used for not just generating btc? it is not everyday a cryptografer haves a 960.36 ghash/s network, which is generating a lot of 0's
can they for example be used in cryptographic research, or anything else useful?
or are they just completely useless?
or are they just completely useless?
Bitcoins themselves have value since they can be used to slow spammers down.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-work_system
Yes they are rainbow tables.
random entrophy data for a cryptographic stream cypher?
If you collect the hashes, you're almost generating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_tables
So potentially they are as useful as a rainbow table, though whether you think that is a good thing is up to you
So potentially they are as useful as a rainbow table, though whether you think that is a good thing is up to you
can they for example be used in cryptographic research, or anything else useful?
or are they just completely useless?
or are they just completely useless?
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